Especially good if you live with chronic illness, I think. When I couldn't hold a book up to read it, not even a paperback, my therapist suggested that I join the Library for the Blind and Disabled. That was a wake up call. First time I really thought of myself as disabled. That was in 2001; I was first diagnosed in 1989. For all you unbelievers out there--you know who you are--I continued to fully function for 12 YEARS after the original diagnoses, and I can assure you I actually had the illnesses for many years before the diagnoses. But I digress. The Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled is for--you know. There are local branches all over the place. Call your local library to find out where yours is.

So, the preceding paragraph was for the purpose of relating the following paragraph to the point of this blog--invisible chronic illness. I'm researching for my stint as host of the Invisible Chronic Illness Week (ICIW) Conference on "Blogging About You…

"Just quickly perusing your latest compilation (fantastic FM/CFSnewsletter!!!!!) and as I read am struck by two things.1) how many people with FM and CFS are prescribed a plethora of drugsto control or supposedly "cure" symptoms and2) being desperately ill and socially ostracized we who have FM andCFS are almost every time I read about treatment, told that anothermedication can make the difference or is the missing magic bullet tocure us.

Dominie, I have had this illness definitively diagnosed in 1996 buthad it for at least ten years before that so for over 20 years I havehad it and have tried everything that I have come across to try to getbetter - all kinds of drugs, eating programs, sleeping aids,exercises, rest, relocations, etc. and after all of it this is wh…

"What is the common dominator for deteriorating tree health in so many areas of the United States? Air pollution, white haze, climate change, increasing UV radiation, higher humidity caused persistent jet contrails, jet fuel emissions, lack of sunlight from persistent aging contrails or climate change produced by persistent jet contrails? There are over 50+ weather modification programs ongoing, according to NOAA records, in the United States. What impact does this chemical manipulation of our weather have on the regional micro-climates that are needed for tree, plant, and agricultural crop health?

Artificial weather modification through the use of chemicals can impact all of us by reducing water supplies, changing agricultural crop production cycles, reducing crop production, and water availability. Since most experimental weather modific…